of these guys, i am able to see this amazing scenery. primary forests are the most bio diverse terrestrial ecosystems anywhere on the planet. forests are not only vital in mitigating climate change, the botanists hope to find plants with untold potential. they get to work collecting specimens. we don t know what it is. it could be a philodendron. beautiful. one of the local guides believes that he has chanced on something extraordinary.
they get to work collecting specimens. we don t know what it is. it could be a philodendron. beautiful. one of the local guides believes that he has chanced on something extraordinary. this, we actually don t know exactly what it is. it could be something new. we are the first botanists collecting in this area. so basically every single collection is a new report
in the forests of colombia, nature is under attack. since the civil war ended in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed. i m frank gardner and i am heading into what remains of the virgin tropical rainforest. i traded in my wheelchair for a packhorse and am tested to my limits. i think this is too dangerous. i don t think i can do this. i am joining a crack team of scientists from the royal botanic gardens, kew. they are on a mission to discover and save unique plant species before they vanish forever. i am going to bear witness on the frontline of rainforest conservation.
skyrocketed in colombia since the peace deal of 2016. our world joins a team of scientists from the royal botanic gardens. in the forests of colombia, nature is under attack. since the civil war ended in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed. i m frank gardnerand i am heading into what remains of the virgin tropical rainforest. i traded in my wheelchair for a packhorse and am tested to my limits. i think this is too dangerous. i don t think i can do this. i am joining a crack team of scientists from the royal botanic gardens, kew. they are on a mission to discover and save unique plant species before they vanish forever.
wildlife is dying out at a rate which has never been seen before in human history, according to today s report. from the arctic to the warm seas of the caribbean, to the gardens of britain, it s happening faster than all the predictions and its global. the living planet report carried out every two yea rs assesses more than 20,000 creatures all around the world, species in all groups of animals on every continent are being lost. what we have seen is a wholesale destruction of some of our most important natural assets in the space of one human lifetime, 50 years. and this is a trend only increasing and accelerating and that s why we have to stop now and start to address it. intensive agriculture is one of the key drivers. these are huge banana plantations in ghana and it s a monoculture. wildlife is being driven out, so people around the world can eat the fruit whenever they like.